[tlbuild] dvi test?

[Paul Vojta]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 07:08:57AM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 at 06:50, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 at 00:30, Karl Berry wrote:
> > >
> > > Attached is a t2a.dvi file (from John Hawkinson,
> > > https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2022-January/047679.html ).
> > > If you have xdvi on your system, can you try running "xdvi t2a.dvi"
> > > and then press "R" (that is, capital R) to reload it?
> > >
> > > It crashes on varieties of Macs per John and Dick, and did not crash for
> > > me on CentOS. So, wondering ... -k
> >
> > I would try reproducing it on a system that's using libc++, for example FreeBSD.
> > (Most notably the two libraries, libc++ and stdlibc++ have different
> > ideas on how to parse numbers / how to interpret the standard.)
> 
> This one in particular kept John Bowman busy for a while when macOS
> 10.9 came out (in case it rings a bell to the developer):
>     https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17782
> 
> I'm not saying it's the case here, but if it works with the TL 2015
> binaries (which were probably still compiled against libstdc++) and
> fails now, this could be a possible explanation.
> 
> Mojca

In a separate thread (not on any mailing lists that I could see),
Richard Koch pointed to the (old) bug

	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96292

and people seemed to agree that this was it.

Paul